Word: pluralists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Algeria should have been holding the concluding round of parliamentary elections, proving that it could move peacefully from one-party socialist rule to a pluralist state, the country's military was putting the finishing touches on a bloodless coup d'etat. Last Thursday, just five days after the army forced the resignation of President Chadli Bendjedid, provoking the dissolution of parliament and cancellation of the elections that had promised to hand Muslim fundamentalists a legislative majority, Mohammed Boudiaf was sworn in as head of a military-backed, five-member Council of State. Boudiaf has splendid credentials -- he is nonpartisan...
...Pluralist at Harvard is a fact. But is pluralism? Ron A. Fein '94 Shai A. Held '94 James M. Harmon '93 Stephen W. Howe '93 Harvard/Radcliffe Democrats
...critical mass of educated voters that is essential. They have few democratic roots. "There is no concept of a loyal opposition," notes Smith Hempstone, the U.S. ambassador to Kenya. "Dissent is equated with sedition." Most debilitating, though, is their sheer poverty, which makes it extremely difficult for a pluralist political system to thrive. Says Hempstone: "Africa missed the industrial revolution, which formed the basis of modern democracy in the West...
...case, we hope that Mr. Lampley, since he meant "no disrespect to gays" but does not care that "together we (oppressed groups) stand, divided we fall," will please step aside. Those of us who think that pluralist efforts against any and all kinds of discrimination is not such a terrible thing would like to pass by. L. Tracee Whitely '88 Divinity School staff Carol DeFeciani FAS-Music Department staff
...have gained power in the present turn to remaking the past in the image of their desires. If 18th, 19th and earlier 20th century society should not have been so dominated by white Christian men of West European ancestry, they reason, then that past society should be reinvented as pluralist and democratic. Alternatively, the racism and sexism of the past are treated as inextricable from -- and therefore irremediably tainting -- traditional learning and values...